| Eyes | |
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| Season 1, Episode 6 | |
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| Air date | November 5, 1995 |
| Written by | Glen Morgan and James Wong |
| Directed by | Félix Enríquez Alcalá |
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Eyes is the sixth episode of Season 1 of Space: Above and Beyond.
The episode aired November 5, 1995 on the Fox Network.
The Secretary General of the United Nations is assassinated by an In Vitro. The UN assembly decides to gather upon the USS SARATOGA to choose a replacement, while a mandatory loyalty test is imposed upon all In Vitroes in the military, including Colonel McQueen and 1LT Cooper Hawkes. Meanwhile West is informed that high-ranking UN officials knew about the alien threat before the colonists were sent to the Vesta Colony.
Summary[]
The USS SARATOGA is on her way back to Earth and all Marines are looking forward for their vacations. On Earth, the head of the United Nations is killed by an In Vitro assassin. All are shocked and while the SARATOGA is ordered to host the secret election of the new Secretary General, Hawkes and McQueen are prevented from joining a transport mission and are required to undergo a Loyalty Test. McQueen refuses to answer the questions and is arrested.
At first, the Wild Cards think that someone wants to assassinate a former board member of AeroTech, Diane Hayden. The Wild Cards accompany Diane Hayden to her quarters and they discuss the possibility that an assassin could already be on board the SARATOGA. One of the newly arrived officers, 1LT Richard Swirko even suggests that it might be McQueen or Hawkes.
Nathan is asked by the French politician Nicholas Chaput, founder of the Partie Nationale D'Identite, to forget his duty as one of his guards. Nathan agrees but he finds out that the newly arrived officer, LT Swirko, tries to kill Chaput and he prevents the assassination.
Meanwhile, McQueen has realized that Cooper is being manipulated by an unknown agency and he agrees to the test to get out of the Brig. When he hears about the thwarted assassination he goes looking for Cooper who is about to kill Chaput in a deserted transport. Every time Cooper sees the political emblem of Chaput's party he has the urge to kill the person wearing it but he fights the programming and McQueen takes away his gun.
McQueen tells Chaput that Hawkes has shown his loyalty by fighting the urge. Diane Hayden is elected as the new Secretary General of the United Nations, but it appears the she was behind the assassin attempts.
Cast & Characters[]
Main Cast[]
- Morgan Weisser as 1LT Nathan West
- Kristen Cloke as 1LT Shane Vansen
- Rodney Rowland as 1LT Cooper Hawkes
- Joel de la Fuente as 1LT Paul Wang
- Lanei Chapman as 1LT Vanessa Damphousse
- James Morrison as LTC Tyrus Cassius "T.C." McQueen
Recurring Cast[]
- Tucker Smallwood as Commodore Ross
- Kimberly Patton as Feliciti OH 483
- Harriet Sansom Harris as Ambassador Diane Hayden
- John L. Bennett as Master At Arms
Additional Cast[]
- George DelHoyo as Ambassador Nicholas Chaput
- John Verea as 1LT Richard Swirko
- Daniel Stewart as Thompson
- Josie DiVincenzo as 1LT Pisarek
- James Lesure as 1LT Stone
- Ken Takemoto as Ambassador Kurasowa
Crew[]
Director[]
Writers[]
Executive Producers[]
- Glen Morgan (executive producer)
- James Wong (executive producer)
- Stephen Zito (co-executive producer)
Producers[]
- Tim McHugh (producer)
- D. Howard Grigsby (producer)
- Herb Adelman (co-producer)
- Tom Towler (supervising producer)
- Ken Dennis (associate producer)
Music[]
- Shirley Walker
Trivia[]
The In Vitro loyalty test administered to McQueen and Hawkes in this episode is similar to the Voight-Kampff test used in the movie Bladerunner to determine if an individual was a Replicant.